Boost

The version of the Boost libraries provided by Fedora 12 are too old (it requires at least version 1.40). Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/ to get the latest version. Assuming that version 1.47.0 has been downloaded as boost_1_47_0.tar.bz2:

If you get an error about "checking host system type... Invalid configuration" and it aborts with "configure: error: libtool configure failed", you can delete config.sub and sym-link a later automake's config.sub: